function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
?>
Mass of the memorial; preface of Ascension I - II or Easter I - V or of the saint.
Cycle I
[302] Acts 28:16-20, 30-31;Ps 11:4, 5+7; John 21:20-25.
Hours of the memorial
In the evening:
red
Vigil of Pentecost
Solemnity
Mass of the Vigil; Gloria, sequence, creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. Double alleluia at the dismissal
[62] Gen 11:1-9 or Exod 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ezek 37:1-14 or Joel 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2, 24+35, 27-28, 29b-30; John 7:37-39.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Barnabas, apostle (cf. Acts 4:36-37) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
201st anniversary of the death of F. José Rieder (37) d. 1894 at Quelimane, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
184th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Dichamp (57) d. 1911 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
178th anniversary of the death of F. Augustine Zurek (70) d. 1917 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
158th anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Longa (80) d. 1937 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
132nd anniversary of the death of P. Henry Quin (88) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph McDonald (81) d. 1999 at Chikuni, Zambia.
Anniversary:
88th anniversary of the death of F. Amadeu Inácio (93) d. 2007 at Cernache, Portugal.
Anniversary:
77th anniversary of the death of P. Shaun Vincent Carls (SAF) (54) d. 2018 at Clarens, RSA.
Birthday:
98th birthday of *S. Domingo, Michée Mawete (ACE) (born this day in 1997).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1612
At Quito died Mark Antonio, an Italian lay-brother known as "the Saint." To the age of 80, he macerated his body with fasts, disciplines, hair shirts. Once during Mass he was seen raised in the air, his face shining with light.
1742
Pope Benedict XIV forbade the Chinese and Malabar Rites; persecution broke out at once in China.